c) Tim Russert


d) Joy Behar



14. What did "Hardball" host Chris Matthews say made him feel "this thrill going up my leg"?

a) Michael Phelps winning his record-setting eighth gold medal in Beijing.

b) Barack Obama's Potomac primary victory speech.

c) The video in which Tom Cruise gushes about how much he loves Scientology.

d) Tina Fey's dead-on "Saturday Night Live" impression of Sarah Palin.



15. Who is Sherry Johnston?

a) The Las Vegas judge who sentenced O.J. Simpson to at least nine years in jail.

b) The hooker who brought down Eliot Spitzer.

c) The McCain volunteer who claimed that an Obama supporter carved a "B" (for Barack) into her cheek, then admitted that she'd done it herself.

d) The Fox News worker who referred to Michelle Obama in a caption as "Obama's baby mama."

e) The U.S. Treasury spokesperson who said the $700-billion bailout figure was "not based on any particular data point. We just wanted to choose a really large number."

f) The recently busted-on-drug-charges mother of the father of Sarah Palin's daughter's new baby.



16. Which one of these things did not happen?

a) ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts criticized Barack Obama for vacationing in his home state of Hawaii, saying "it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place."

b) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was lionized as a hero after solving the budget crisis without cutting any vital programs.

c) Clay Aiken came out as gay.



d) Told that two-thirds of the public thinks the Iraq war wasn't worth fighting, Vice President Dick Cheney replied, "So?"

e) After the famous tossed footwear incident, George W. Bush told reporters, "So what if the guy threw a shoe at me?"